Well, as it's been said, it's not easy to express these views, but I'm also gonna give it a shot.
As for the (apparent) nature of this thread, writting in a different way. I'm with Display of Character on this, it is important to have some consistency when expressing oneself, yet once you've reached some acceptable level, there are some occasions where deliberately being an idiot (and I'm rather keen at this) can be fun.
As for the long posting. I left the board long ago, circa 2003, but I keep coming back, no matter how different my life and views are from the ones that I had back then. I must admit that it is Rahvin's posts the main reason for me to come back. And they were long sometimes, but I remember myself, with a lower proficency in english (yeah, even lower), closely reading his lines and feeling excited by the challenge of replying. Same applied to other old regulars, Villain, Misanthrope, and many others who made this board so great to be wandered.
Nowadays I still like reading Rahvin's posts, and I see that people like DisplayOFCharacter or Marduk (and you, dear reader of my lines, XD) add some new blood and the same interesting challenge that existed some years ago, even when their posts are long.
There are many reasons for people to not reply to a certain post in a board, DisplayofCharacter gave a couple that don't fit into any of the two categories hyena proposed. It is not that he doesn't care about posts that add much, but that he knows little about the particular field discussed, or he would love to reply but his exams keep him quite busy. To validate this point, let me keep feeding Rahvin's ego, his posts were often replied even if they were a long and intrincated train of thought. THis robot himself liked to do it. It was harder and it required time, but it was interesting nonetheless.
This leads us to the third and last point, hope I can put it well and not start a fight again, I swear it is not my intention, honest to God.
As for Hyena's game. Hyena, I don't like you, I never did. You surely don't like me either. I also believe that we both are entitled to it. And shall peace bless us.
I'm not the first one in this board to feel like this, this is certainty, and it is not me the first one straightforwardly stating how unbearable your speech seems to me. For this reason, I strongly hold myself to your "a" option, your posts, in my opinion, make no sense at all most of the time. Other people might like them, well, let them be then.
This is not an honest thread to have fun and show how outrageously intelligent we are, this is a childish game of yours because you felt bad when I pointed out how regularly the word "concur" showed up in your writting, and had a little fight. That was the origin of this "simple way of posting", otherwise, I fail to see the link you followed by jumping from the honest game to the sudden "the whole world don't care to read my insightful posts" conclusion. Now we can bring semantics here, if you want.
Some people mock you because you pick out unusual words, and you go on a strike and start an universal tragedy? How old are you? Eight?
In an understandable way: Rahvin can keep using the word "obnoxious" as long as his words make sense. Besides, he's earned it after 17.000 posts bringing back words never used since the 17th century (blink!). Truth is, you can have a high level proficency on certain language, yet well ornamented crap keeps smelling.
I throw this out because I felt this way and I liked to clarify my position. From now on, I'll try to politely ignore you. I could leave some room for you to reply to this, but I think the main point here is that I don't like you, and admittedly you can have some peeps out there, so we better go on with our lives.
I like this board, I hope I can remain here.
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P.S: Good thing is, this has been long as the Bible, so nobody will read it. No worries, I will assume that this falls into hyena's "b" category, where my post was so enlightening that nobody cared.
@Rampage: Do you know any interesting forum in french? I did some research to try to improve my writting skills in french, but I didn't like what I found. Any suggestions?
